Empirical Study Of Concurrency in Open Source Object Oriented Software

Goal: Perform a study of the usage of concurrency and parallelism in Open Source OO software systems. The study can be a replication of the one that’s mentioned at the end as related reading or can take a different approach.

Research Questions

How often do people use concurrency and parallelism?

What are the primitives that developers are using? (e.g. simple synchronization, complex j.u.c. abstractions?)

[optional] If you run the same analysis over the years, what trends can be detected?

[optional] Can you compare different programming languages?

[optional] Which are the most discussed concurrency // parallelism issues online? Analyze StackOverflow.